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IETF Drops RFC For Cosmetic Carbon Copy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-never-happened dept.

paulproteus writes "Say you have an email where you want to send an extra copy to someone without telling everyone. There's always been a field for that: BCC, or Blind Carbon Copy. But how often have you wanted to do the opposite: make everyone else think you sent a copy to somebody without actually having done so? Enter the new IETF-NG RFC: Cosmetic Carbon Copy, or CCC. Now you can conveniently email all of your friends (with a convenient exception or two...) with ease!"

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  1. This would actually be useful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Although it is an April Fool's...this would actually be useful. I can see a couple times where CCCing a Boss or someone else would get things done quicker.

    I hate being a "tatle" but this would work to scare some people into action.

    1. Re:This would actually be useful. by BitZtream · · Score: 2, Insightful

      If you just want to trick people, I've found adding a:

      CCd To: (addresses here)

      in the message body accomplishes it well enough, it only fails if they actually think about it, which generally only happens if they already suspect you of being full of shit :) Most people however (at least outside the geek world) are too oblivious to realize its just text in the message.

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    2. Re:This would actually be useful. by rar · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I have actually wanted this feature at times and wondered why there was no way in the MUA UI to do it. Not for keeping people out of the loop, but for resending emails that get bounced (say, misspelled email or delivery failure) or to recipients I forgot the first time.

      Lets say that you are sending out a move invite to a number of friends. Just after you send it you notice that you forgot Alice. Now you need to send the invite just to her, but you prefer the email to look as the original so that she can see who else is invited. This is a common occurrence! And it would be very convenient if you could just bring up the email again, move everyone from To/Cc into Ccc, and then put her as the only CC.

      Please explain to me again why this is presented as an Aprils fool, rather than a genuine feature?

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    3. Re:This would actually be useful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I've thought about that too. The only problem is that if someone else then replies-all, Alice will be excluded again. Ideally, you'd want to send out the updated email to everyone again, but have a way to flag it as just a CC list update (and have everyone's email clients handle it transparently.)

    4. Re:This would actually be useful. by johnw · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I've been amazed lately by the number of regular e-mail users who take no notice of any headers at all. Anything in the Subject: line might as well not be there, and I keep getting replies from people to whom I've Cc:ed something saying, "Who did you send this to originally?"

      There are are quite a few people out there to whom nothing but the message body exists.